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2017 FORMULA 1 ROLEX BRITISH GRAND PRIX

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2017 FORMULA 1 ROLEX BRITISH GRAND PRIX


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Silverstone Circuit
Lap length 5.891km (3.66 miles)
Race laps 52
Race distance 306.332km (190.346 miles)
Pole position Left-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’30.874 (Fernando Alonso, 2010)
Fastest lap 1’29.243 (Lewis Hamilton, 2016, qualifying two)
Maximum speed 329.5kph (204.742 mph)
DRS zone/s (race) Pit straight and Hangar straight
Distance from grid to turn one 296m
Full throttle 70%
Longest flat-out section 1034m
Downforce level High
Gear changes per lap 40
Fuel use per lap 2.8kg
Time penalty per lap of fuel 0.112s

UK Times
Friday 14th July 2017
British Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 9:00-10:30 (UK time: 9:00-10:30)
British Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 13:00-14:30 (UK time: 13:00-14:30)
Saturday 15th July 2017
British Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 10:00-11:00 (UK time: 10:00-11:00)
British Grand Prix Qualifying: 13:00 (UK time: 13:00)
Sunday 16th July 2017
British Grand Prix: 13:00 (UK time: 13:00)

Previous Winners
2016 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2015 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2014 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2013 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes
2012 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault
2011 Spain Fernando Alonso Ferrari
2010 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault
2009 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2008 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes
2007 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari
2006 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault
2005 Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren-Mercedes
2004 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2003 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Ferrari
2002 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2001 Finland Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes
2000 United Kingdom David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes

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Facts from the previous race

Valtteri Bottas won another super-close contest for pole position this year which put him on course to become a two-times grand prix winner.

The Mercedes driver beat Sebastian Vettel to pole by 0.042s in Austria. That’s the fifth time this year the top two have been separated by less than six-hundredths of a second.

Unfortunately for Vettel, he’s been on the losing side of that three times. Had he found another five-hundredths last weekend, the same at Monaco and six-hundredths in Spain, he’d be on four pole position for the season instead of one.

Nonetheless Vettel has the best average qualifying position (before penalties) of any driver so far this year, thanks to starting six of the nine races so far from second. That’s an impressive feat given that Mercedes have had the quicker car over a single lap in seven races out of nine.

As it was Vettel was left to chase home Bottas as the Mercedes driver became the 74th driver in the championship’s history to win more than one race. He also gave Mercedes their fourth consecutive win in Austria, continuing their domination of this round since it was reintroduced to the calendar in 2014.

Bottas took pole with a lap of 1’04.251. He and others might have gone quicker had it not been for a late yellow flag. But even so this was the shortest pole position time seen at an F1 race since Nigel Mansell’s Williams-Honda headed the grid at the 1985 South African Grand Prix. Mansell covered the 4.104km Kyalami track at an average speed of 236.898kph while Bottas lapped the 4.318km Red Bull Ring at an average of 241.938kph.

Bottas joined Stuart Lewis-Evans, Jo Siffert, John Watson, Gilles Villeneuve, Michele Alboreto, Jean Alesi and Heinz-Harald Frentzen as a two-times pole sitter. But while he was flying high his former team Williams were struggling. The FW40s shared the ninth row, the team’s worst starting positions since Bottas and Pastor Maldonado started 17th and 18th at the 2013 Korean Grand Prix.

It was almost a lights-to-flag victory for Bottas. However Kimi Raikkonen ran long during his first stint and took the lead for two laps before slipping back to finish fifth. This extended a depressing streak for Raikkonen: In the last 15 races every time both Ferraris have finished Vettel has been ahead.

Raikkonen was followed home by Romain Grosjean who equalled the best qualifying performance for Haas by starting sixth. Fernando Alonso and Nico Hulkenberg extended their unbeaten streaks against their team mates in qualifying, the former doing so despite not running Honda’s upgraded engine.

Daniel Ricciardo finished on the podium for the fifth race running, which is his longest streak to date. His fortunes could hardly contrast more sharply with team mate Max Verstappen, who in nine races has retired five times. Three of these were due to technical failures and the other two were first-lap incidents.

Renault posted their fifth no-score this year but for the first time Jolyon Palmer came home ahead of Nico Hulkenberg. Palmer, who is yet to score this year, took his third 11th place finish, and is starting to look like the Esteban Gutierrez of 2017.

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DannyRic was on good form in the press conference in case you missed it. He's in part 2 along with a slightly squirmy Hamilton getting heavily grilled on why he was the only driver to miss the London F1 demo event.

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Good to see #blessed getting absolutely reamed for this from every direction. The bloke is a monumental piece of shit and many are starting to wake to it.

If only the rumours about this being the last straw for Merc and they're looking at dumping him for Sebby Seb are true! Fuck that would be glorious.
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Thanks for the clip from 93 Kev, hard to believe it was so long ago, remember that like it was yesterday. Cars with Character! Drivers with Character! Circuits with Character, blimey!

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The tracks are fine and still have character Jamo. It's the cars being too good.

Silvy in a 900 bhp Mclaren Can Am looks a right handful

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Bollocks the tracks are fucking parking lots. Silverstone for instance had been utterly destroyed.
Soulless, jumped up Kart tracks with scarce few exceptions.
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Jamo wrote:Bollocks the tracks are fucking parking lots. Silverstone for instance had been utterly destroyed.
Soulless, jumped up Kart tracks with scarce few exceptions.
So 12 of the 18 turns have not changed and they added in a long straight and its ruined? :rolleyes:
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Twitter saying Hamilton keeps pole despite blocking.


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Yeah I don't think Grosjean was close enough and he went faster on his next lap anyway so it was a bit moot.

This is Hamilton's race to lose now, unless the weather spices it up a bit.
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Great demonstration of how fast an F1 car picks up there. Wow.
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norbs wrote:Twitter saying Hamilton keeps pole despite blocking.


Link http://www.eurosport.co.uk/formula-1/br ... tory.shtml
That was not blocking so correct decision made. :D
durbster wrote:Great demonstration of how fast an F1 car picks up there. Wow.
And shows how much better the run into the start of the lap is compared to someone finishing their flying lap.
Their apex speed was comparable then the Merc leaves the Haas for dust.
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I always like to flip the coin over. Likelihood of same outcome 1) if Hamilton was blocked by Grosjean and 2) if Grosjean didn't post a faster time later on.

(not that any of this matters, just the way I think).
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Dr. Pain wrote:So 12 of the 18 turns have not changed and they added in a long straight and its ruined? :rolleyes:
Absofarkenlutely. The place has been concreted like a old Greeks front yard!!! It's a joke, a sad pathetic joke.
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can someone explain how being potentially affected but not impeded is different? It looks a lot to me like Grosjeans mid corner and exit was comprimised, which is why Hamilton clears off at the rate he does.

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His build up to the lap was affected but he wasn't impeded during his quali lap by Hamilton.
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wasn't he on a lap?
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He was on a lap, which would have been faster than his second lap which he stuffed up..

This looked black and white to me
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Hamilton in England. He could take a dump on the podium and 99% of the soap dodgers, and Duke, would cheer.

A Wabbit said, flip it around and they would have been spitting their wooden teeth out of their mouths!
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Jamo wrote:
Dr. Pain wrote:So 12 of the 18 turns have not changed and they added in a long straight and its ruined? :rolleyes:
Absofarkenlutely. The place has been concreted like a old Greeks front yard!!! It's a joke, a sad pathetic joke.

I realise your brain doesnt process empathy or any of those nuanced emotions, but it is a safety concern.

Whinge all you want Jamo, but it isnt going to change. You are like our very own Tony Abbott! :nod:
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I'm partially on Jamos side, i hate the new section they put in a few years ago. The old left hander that went under the bridge and then right was mega.

This was my favorite layout.

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I can never get my head around the new and old parts. Even when we race it on FNF, I struggle to know where I am.
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